D’anna, Lynnette. RagTimeBone. Vancouver: New Star, 1994.
This is yet another of D’anna’s books that have been trickling in over the past few weeks. I am waiting until they all arrive to begin reading them. Summer is a great time for reading a writer’s oeuvre straight through because of the extra time off. I used to spend extended periods of time with authors (Chaim Potok, Philip Roth, Samuel R. Delany, and Louise Erdrich, to name a few) a lot, but, with the exception of a brief Theodora Keogh phase last summer, my reading over the past two years has been rather piecemeal. I’m looking forward to re-encountering the luxurious feeling of being enveloped in a writer’s voice for several weeks on end.
Hill, Lawrence. Someone Knows My Name. New York: Norton, 2007.
A colleague told me about this book recently. It’s a neo-slave narrative told from a Canadian perspective, which should be fascinating.
Both books bought via amazon.com’s network of booksellers. These are the last two books I will acquire before I move to New York next week. I pity the movers having to carry all of my books and bookcases!
Daniel Shank Cruz 